But powered up to a rather impressive degree; full on magic weapons instead of just imbued unarmed strikes.
“Divine” magic here is fueled by strength of will. Rachel’s is in her faith, Frigg’s in her own badassery. But check the holy cajones on this sumbish…

Okay, he can’t have lost his eye here. Not really. Go back to chapter 3 and look again: 2 eyes, perfectly fine. Was the same way in chapter 2. Byron questioned him, with Syr’Nj’s help. So: EYE. NOT. LOST. HERE.

I’m not sure if it’s Ardaic. Since this takes place between chapter 3 (Sundar still has both eyes there) and current time, Ardaic is already a high and mighty lord and I don’t really see why he would bother showing up to punish someone who freed some of Gastonia’s Orc slaves.

Then again, the resemblance to Ardaic is certainly there, and he mentioned in the last page that Brunhilde was a hired adventurer, much in the same way he hired the peacemakers.

Look through the archives where Ardaic shows up. He tends to be very defensive of Gastonia, and you know, I could see him going so far as to fight in person when necessary as a Crusader. I bet that the chummy, endearing moments between Ardaic and Syr’Nj are to make him more approachable and likeable, so the knife hurts more when we realize the evil he’s done in the name of protecting Gastonia.

I’ve seen helms that are also masks, with facial details worked in, something like musculata armor, but I’ve never seen one with an enormous, flowing mustache. I noticed that detail in the prior comic. Whether or not that’s Ardaic, I’m sure it’s meant to suggest Ardaic.

Uh, not sure we can actually tell his eye colour at the moment. In both his pages, the Silver Centurion has been in quite unusual lighting situations, which wash all his colours towards grey. That said, whatever colour the eyes are, brown does seem unlikely (it would take really wierd lighting to send brown towards grey). Although, now that I think of it, changing eye-colour to represent different power-states is a pretty standard method of appearance-based signalling.

It might be an, as of yet, unknown Antagonist. Or somebody who is killed by Mama Bear during the fight.

What made me think about this entire scene is (as always) Good vs Evil. I think that what we see here is a clash of “Two Goods”. It is all a matter of perspective but that does make me realise that I do not think we ever saw any Orcs.

Oh, I know we saw them two pages ago. I was thinking “In General”. We saw Trolls, Gnomes, Shark People… I just never saw any Orcs… I think… I am curious whether they are so few in number that they appear neither in Gastonia nor among the Savage Races.

You aren’t the only one. I read the alt text in otacon’s voice
Incidentally, I really hate fighting high level spellcasters….especially warrior mages. They get to survive long enough to get seriously badass, without being a drag on the team, then we end up with reality warping powers plus the ability to take it. He won’t be going down easily

The “made out of pure magic energy” thing kinda does. He summons whatever weapons/tools are needed/useful at any given time, and shapes them how he will. When blocking, the lack of spikes became useful, and presumably he had a similar use for the logner, skinnier sword.

I’m thinking that the Silver Centurion might be that Lieutenant Jarlssen mentioned a few pages ago… you know, the guy who wasn’t “deft” enough to deal with Fightopia? I mean, for them to have a fighting chance, we’d have to have faith that he wouldn’t pull out his big glowy stabbyshit again :P

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